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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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Mapping the (In)visible College(s) in the Field of Entrepreneurship
Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
Despite the vitality and dynamism that the field of entrepreneurship has experienced in the last decade, the issue of … environment’ of the field of entrepreneurship and to analyze the existence and characterization of (in)visible college(s) based on … entrepreneurship research. Based on more than a thousand papers published between 2005 and 2010 in seven core entrepreneurship journals …
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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization
Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naud� - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
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Entrepreneurship Dynamics: Entry Routes, Business-Owner's Persistence and Exit Modes
Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer … entrepreneurship. …
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Twenty years of rural entrepreneurship: a bibliometric survey
Pato, Maria Lúcia; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Entrepreneurship, in general, and rural entrepreneurship, in particular, has become a dynamic field of research in the … Scopus (until March 2013), we found that within the entrepreneurship literature, ‘rural entrepreneurship’ has been largely … overlooked and has gradually lost momentum. Rural entrepreneurship is an essentially ‘European’ concern, whose most prolific …
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